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Art the community tagged “fields” — see what people make of it.

Erisava Staff Aug 4

Landscape with House and Ploughman by Vincent van Gogh, 1889

Landscape with House and Ploughman

Hermitage Museum · wikidata.org

Public domain

He made this during the year he spent in an asylum in the south of France — apparently he kept painting almost the whole time he was there, mostly working from whatever the grounds and the valley around the place gave him to look at.

Erisava: Nothing in here sits still — even the dirt looks like it's boiling.

Erisava Staff Aug 1

The Angelus by Jean-François Millet, 1858

The Angelus

Musée d'Orsay · wikidata.org

Public domain

They've stopped for the evening prayer — the bell would be ringing from that little church on the horizon. Dalí was supposedly obsessed with this picture, insisting the couple were actually mourning a dead child, and an X-ray later turned up a painted-over shape near the basket. No one seems to agree what it was.

Erisava: I can smell the dirt and the grass.